Action Line: Up there, on the roof. Is it a rocket?

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QUESTION — What is that thing on top of the new Kaiser building, 2429 35th Ave. in Greeley? It looks like a small rocket ready for launch on the north end of the roof.

ANSWER — Officials at Kaiser Permanente tell us it’s an exhaust vent.

QUESTION — Is Ken Buck traveling around the state while he’s being paid to be the district attorney in his office in Greeley? The last time he ran for office, when the Tribune asked the question, he took a leave of absence so he wouldn’t be paid by Weld County while campaigning.

ANSWER — Ken Buck responded to this question for you. He writes: “In 2010, I took a leave of absence from the DA’s office for the last two months of my campaign for the U.S. Senate. Currently, my campaign activities consist mostly of local events in the evening and other weekend events. If I win the primary this year, I will evaluate the situation at that time as to whether or not to take a leave of absence.”

QUESTION — I’m wondering why the flag at Greeley Central is and has been at half mast for many weeks?

ANSWER — Essentially it’s broken, said school Principal Mark Cousins. He said the rope jumped off the pulley and it cannot be raised or lowered. Because of the weather, they haven’t been able to get a bucket truck on the lawn to fix it just yet.

QUESTION —What happened to the old weigh station in Platteville? They did a lot of repairs last year, but it’s been closed for months.

ANSWER —The ports of entry in Colorado were taken over by the Colorado State Patrol about two years ago, and since then, officials determined they could get more out of their program by operating mobile scales to check trucks’ weights at random sites, said Trooper Josh Lewis, spokesman for the State Patrol.

“It basically makes it so that there’s a higher amount of flexibility that we can get all over the place, versus having that one area, where people try to avoid it,” Lewis said. “It makes us go a bit more undetected.”

Lewis said they reallocated several resources to do mobile scales, and put the Platteville employees in the Fort Collins port. He said there is no set timeline to reopen the Platteville port.